"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
GREGG TOWNSHIP
PAGE 345
NATHAN NICHOLAS, farmer, is a native of Washington County, Ky., was born
September 16, 1804, and is a son of Nathan and Nancy (Gresham) Nicholas,
natives respectively of North Carolina and Virginia, who emigrated to Orange County,
Ind., in 1815, where Mr. Nicholas died. Our subject settled in this county in 1830,
near Mooresville, and in this township in 1848. Mr. Nicholas has been twice married--
first, October 23, 1828, to Sarah Kearby, a native of Kentucky, with an issue of
seven children--Edward C. (deceased), Nancy M., Giles H., Elizabeth B., Sophia
Jane, Mary and Thomas K. (deceased). The mother of these died in 1843, and
November 1, 1853, Mr. Nicholas married Mrs. Lena Hancock, by which marriage
succeeded five children--Delphina (deceased), Samuel, Loretta F., Lena Finetta
(deceased) and Arlita T. Mr. Nicholas is owner of eighty acres of excellent and
improved land, which possession is wholly his own acquirement. He is in political
matters a Republican, and he and wife are communicants of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
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